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Donaldson, L. F., Gibbs, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0876-1798, Purse, L., Pye, D. and Shambu, G. (2022) Roundtable: Movie: a journal of film criticism and the past, present, and future of film criticism. Movie: a journal of film criticism (10). pp. 116-136. ISSN 2047-1661

Purse, L. (2019) Square-jawed strength: gender and resilience in the female astronaut film. Science Fiction Film and Television, 12 (1). pp. 53-72. ISSN 1754-3770

Purse, L. (2018) Layered encounters: mainstream cinema and the disaggregate digital composite. Film-Philosophy, 22 (2). pp. 148-167. ISSN 1466-4615 doi: https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2018.0070

Purse, L. (2017) Digital visceral: textural play and the flamboyant gesture in digital screen violence. Journal of Popular Film & Television, 45 (1). pp. 16-25. ISSN 0195-6051 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2017.1270137

Hellmich, C. and Purse, L. (2016) Knowing war: moving images and the politics of erasure in the post 9/11 world. E-international relations.

Purse, L. (2016) Affective trajectories: locating diegetic velocity in the cinema experience. Cinema Journal, 55 (2). pp. 151-157. ISSN 0009-7101 (IN FOCUS: Speed)

Purse, L. (2015) Rotational aesthetics: Michael Bay and contemporary cinema’s machine movement. Senses of Cinema (75). ISSN 1443-4059

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Purse, L. (2019) The new dominance: action-fantasy hybrids and the new superhero in 2000s action cinema. In: Kendrick, J. (ed.) A Companion to the Action Film. Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, West Sussex, pp. 55-73. ISBN 9781119100492 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119100744.ch3

Purse, L. (2017) Between phonographic perfection and resistance: Titãs – life even looks like a party. In: Elduque Busquets, A. (ed.) Contemporary Brazilian Music Film. University of Reading, Reading, pp. 91-98. ISBN 9780704915855

Purse, L. (2017) Working space: gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) and the digital long take. In: Pye, D. and Gibbs, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0876-1798 (eds.) The Long Take: Critical Approaches. Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 221-238. ISBN 9781137585721

Purse, L. (2017) Confronting the impossibility of impossible bodies: Tom Cruise and the ageing male action hero movie. In: Yu, S. Q. and Austin, G. (eds.) Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 162-184, 320 pages. ISBN 9781474404310

Purse, L. (2017) Ambiguity, ambivalence and absence in Zero Dark Thirty. In: Purse, L. and Hellmich, C. (eds.) Disappearing War Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 131-148. ISBN 9781474416566

Hellmich, C. and Purse, L. (2017) Introduction: film and the epistemology of war. In: Hellmich, C. and Purse, L. (eds.) Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9781474416566

Purse, L. (2016) The new Hollywood, 1981–1999: special/visual effects. In: Whissel, K. and Keil, C. (eds.) Editing and Special/Visual Effects. Behind the Silver Screen. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, pp. 142-155. ISBN 9780813570815

Purse, L. (2011) The Matrix. In: Geraghty, L. (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood. Directory of World Cinema. Intellect Books, Bristol and Chicago, IL, pp. 99-101. ISBN 9781841504155

Purse, L. (2011) Transformers. In: Geraghty, L. (ed.) American Hollywood. Directory of World Cinema (5). Intellect Books, Bristol and Chicago, IL, pp. 279-281. ISBN 9781841504155

Purse, L. (2011) Return of the 'Angry Woman': authenticating female physical action in contemporary cinema. In: Waters, M. (ed.) Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 185-198. ISBN 9780230229655

Purse, L. (2010) Working through the body: textual-corporeal strategies in United 93 (2006). In: Brown, T. and Walters, J. (eds.) Film moments: criticism, history, theory. British Film Institute and Palgrave, London, UK, pp. 157-161. ISBN 9781844573363

Purse, L. (2009) Gestures and postures of mastery: CGI and contemporary action cinema's expressive tendencies. In: Balcerzak, S. and Sperb, J. (eds.) Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure and Digital Culture. Wallflower Press, London & New York, pp. 214-234. ISBN 9781905674848

Purse, L. (2005) The new spatial dynamics of the bullet-time effect. In: King, G. (ed.) The Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond. Intellect, Exeter, pp. 151-160. ISBN 9781841501208

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Purse, L., Lees, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740, Philip, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2186-0619 and Ghosh, S., (2023) What can the industry and Government do to ensure British film and high-end television can adapt for the future? Report. UK Parliament, Westminster. pp4.

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Fife Donaldson, L. and Purse, L., eds. (2022) Issue 10. Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, 10. University of Warwick. (ISSN 2047-1661)

Purse, L. and Wölfel, U., eds. (2020) Mediating War and Identity: Figures of Transgression in 20th- and 21st-century War Representation. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9781474446266

Purse, L. and Palmer, L., eds. (2019) When the astronaut is a woman. Science Fiction Film and Television (Special Issue), 12 (1). Liverpool University Press.

Hellmich, C. and Purse, L., eds. (2017) Disappearing war: interdisciplinary perspectives on cinema and erasure in the post-9/11 world. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp216. ISBN 9781474416566

Purse, L. (2013) Digital imaging in popular cinema. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp208. ISBN 9780748646906

Purse, L. (2011) Contemporary action cinema. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp232. ISBN 9780748638178